Pivotal Point
Turning points in history and in the markets can help you transform small grubstakes into not-so-small fortunes. Or they can trip up your finances for months, even years. This free e-letter will not only keep you one step ahead of the news, but it will also help you identify the pivotal point in time when a major turn is near.
By Jon D. Markman On March 8, 201904:00 PM Eastern
Despite a bumpy week, the major indexes are off to their best start to a year in about three decades, up 10% across the board.
So far it looks like stocks are taking a breather within a sturdy...
By Jon D. Markman On March 6, 201902:00 PM Eastern
Tesla (TSLA) shares are out of favor, again.
This time, it’s because the electric car/solar power/save-the-planet company is beginning to be valued like an automaker.
The transformation began...
By Jon D. Markman On March 4, 201902:00 PM Eastern
Carmakers keep rushing into shotgun weddings, with each bringing a substantial dowry of technology to the marriage.
BMW and Mercedes announced Feb. 27 a new, long-term agreement to pool their...
By Jon D. Markman On March 1, 201902:00 PM Eastern
All four major stock market indexes closed February with gains of at least 3% for the month.
For the year so far, the Dow and S&P 500 are both up 11% — their best start since 1987, according to...
By Jon D. Markman On February 27, 201902:00 PM Eastern
The future of mobile devices is foldable. And that is really bad news for Apple.
Huawei revealed its foldable Mate X ahead of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Feb. 24. The jaw-dropping 5G...
By Jon D. Markman On February 25, 201902:00 PM Eastern
It’s the worst-kept secret in television. People are fleeing fat cable TV bills for digital media. They are cutting the cord in record numbers.
According to research reported in Fortune on...
By Jon D. Markman On February 22, 201902:00 PM Eastern
The list of 52-week highs among U.S. stocks has been skinny lately because of the smackdown suffered in December.
Jason Goepfert of SentimenTrader.com notes that the rally has been flashy but...
By Jon D. Markman On February 20, 201902:30 PM Eastern
Business leaders are finally fessing up to the fact that artificially intelligent enterprise software is going kill thousands of service jobs.
Michael Corbat, CEO at Citigroup (C) , told the...
By Jon D. Markman On February 13, 201902:00 PM Eastern
It’s hard to see all the pieces, but artificial intelligence is changing computing in profound new ways.
Axios reported Feb. 6 that Adobe (ADBE), a company best known for its software suite...
By Jon D. Markman On February 11, 201902:00 PM Eastern
To protect privacy, activists and politicians are clamoring to regulate big tech.
They don’t know it yet, but they are falling into a trap. That’s because big tech is embracing oversight.
In...
About the Editor
Jon D. Markman is winner of the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for outstanding financial journalism and the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi award. He was also on Los Angeles Times staffs that won Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of the 1992 L.A. riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. He invented Microsoft’s StockScouter, the world’s first online app for analyzing and picking stocks.
